Researcher wins prestigious water science award
VICTOR: Dr Bongani Ncube (centre), a researcher at the Centre for Water and Sanitation Research, is congratulated by Water Research Commission (WRC) CEO, Dhesigen Naidoo and WRC Board member, Dr Ntombifuthi Nala, after winning in the commission’s Knowledge Tree Awards
Friday, 24 November 2017
Dr Bongani Ncube, a researcher at the Centre for Water and Sanitation Research, has recently scooped a 2017 Water Research Commission (WRC) Knowledge Tree Award.
Ncube won the award in the ‘Empowerment of Communities’ Category in recognition of her research projects which focus on smallholder farmers in the Western Cape.
"I feel honoured and privileged to receive such an award. This award means a lot to me personally, the Research Unit and CPUT,” she says.
“It gives me great pleasure that my team have made a difference in the lives of the farmers in such a short period of time. The research has built capacity through MSc students and collaboration with the Breede-Gouritz Catchment Agency."
The awards celebrate men and women who make a major impact in pursuing excellence in the water science domain, and were presented during the third biennial WRC symposium held recently in Ekurhuleni under the theme ‘Adaptation to the new normal’.
Ncube recently completed a project that saw farmers and institutions collaborating to find solutions in accessing water and agriculture knowledge. She previously documented indigenous knowledge strategies for drought management in another project in the same province.
She is grateful to the institutions involved in her research work, the farmers and the team of students who work with her.
The research also further strengthened relations between CPUT and the Breede-Gouritz Catchment Management Agency, who have since 2013 been collaborating through a Memorandum of Agreement with the University of Western Cape.
Written by Kwanele Butana
Email: butanak@cput.ac.za
News categories
- Advancement 13
- Alumni 77
- Awards 46
- Campus Life 20
- Community Engagement 163
- Disability Unit 12
- Applied Sciences 108
- Business & Management Sciences 95
- Education 97
- Engineering & the Built Environment 142
- Health & Wellness Sciences 117
- Informatics & Design 82
- Fundani CHED 24
- Funding 17
- GBV 16
- Graduation 88
- HIV/Aids Unit 39
- Know Your CPUT 65
- Libraries 18
- News 3793
- RTIP 297
- Residences (Accommodation) 15
- Staff 660
- SIIP 37
- Students 1312
- Student Health 44
- Sport, Arts & Culture 127
- SRC 4
- Student Affairs 11
- University Leadership 19
- Varsity Shield 17
- Vice-Chancellor 22
- Work-Integrated Learning 22
- THENSA 11
